SYAMSUNDAR COLLEGE LIBRARY: a brief profile

SYAMSUNDAR COLLEGE LIBRARY: a brief profile

(As on 27.09.2016)

INTRODUCTION

Syamsundar college library: a brief profile gives an overall view of the library facilities and activities of the library. At present the library is fully automated through KOHA: open source software. Databases of books are being updated. With the combined efforts of the staff members of the library we are trying to meet the demands of the users by rendering various services.

HISTORY:

Syamsundar College was founded by late ‘Raibahadur’  Bishalaksha Bose, the distinguished social worker of the Raina- Shyamsundar locality on 12^th August 1948, a view to open a gateway of higher education. Former ministers of the Govt. of West Bengal Abdus Sattar, Kalipada Mukherjee and Prafulla Chandra Sen and renowned freedom fighter such as Jadabendra Nath Panja helped a lot in establishing the college at Shyamsundar. Late Prafulla Chandra Sen, the former Chief Minister of West Bengal became the first President of Governing Body of the college. Mr. Shib Mohan Bose, the highly qualified son of ‘Raibhadur’ Bishalaksha Bose had been appointed as the first principal of the college. In 1956 the college was notified as a Govt. Sponsored Degree College in the Education Gazette.  The college has 17 under graduate departments. In 2005, the college had become UGC-NAAC accreditation and obtained B+ status at the first circle.

 ABOUT THE LIBRARY: 

Syamsundar College Library was started along with the establishment of the institution in 1948 in order to cater the academic and research needs of the faculty, students and non-teaching staff.  But the systematic Accession Register was started from 1957.

The library is situated at the 1^st floor of the Golden Jubilee Bhaban. Books are well arranged and organized according to Class No.  Manuscript, Rare books and Confined books are separated from general stock. The books are classified according to the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) 22^nd edition with extreme care to the subject matter. Recently purchased books are being updated on the day to day basis through Library Management Software KOHA.  Moreover books relating to different competitive examination for career/services, general knowledge and other documents are separately available.  Its shelf space and working space is a total of 3894.8 sq. ft. and seating accommodation for 40 students. Security system like surveillance camera has been installed in the library.

All Honours departments are also equipped with Departmental libraries containing the books commonly needed by the students of the subject. Reading and lending facilities as appropriate are available in the Departmental Libraries. The Departmental library’s collection of books generally consists of specimen copy from publishers and loaned from the Central Library. Departmental libraries are constantly used by the teachers and regular students of that department only for the enhancement of teaching and learning.

COLLECTIONS:

At present, the library has 36498 (as on 30/06/2016) volumes of books on various subjects with 11615 titles and 116 bound volumes of journals and non-book materials such as CD, DVD, pamphlets, and atlas. A considerable part of the Library’s collection consists of gifts from individuals and other educational institutions like Central Institute of Indian languages.

The Library has 12 journals out of which subscribes 7 and gifted 5 and 5 magazines. Three newspapers in English and Bengali languages are subscribed. It has 331 valuable PUTHIS on various concepts. Apart from this the Library users can access to around 80000 online journals and 6000 online books through NLIST programme.